Friday Friday!
Friday, 22 March 2019
Friday theme/goal, ¿no? Create energy! Bang a drum!
And some visual symmetry. Just ’cause.
Musings
Gutter petals
Thursday, 21 March 2019
Took today’s nifty new device on my walk. Discovered I have to stop to see much (otherwise jiggle jiggle can’t-focus very well)…which triggers my walk-measuring device to pause…which is not what I’m supposed to be doing when I’m Out Walking. Next time I’ll venture out other than when I’m Out Walking—and see more! Great light-gathering capability!
This section of the gutter harbored a thick windrow of petals. So pretty.
Friday…yay!
Friday, 15 March 2019
We started off with the black drink (not the Ilex version—duh!), shared with our lovely guests who were passing through from Pair-eeee (whatta time change!) en route to the Athens of Georgia. Glad they stopped over with us….
Sometime later…. With the fennel sprouts, we waved gubbbbb-eye….
Okay, I gotta give you a flower-cluster, too. Brilliant azaleas.
Instead of catching the week’s-end summaries and cogitations late afternoon via ray-dee-oh and tee-vee, we launched a mooooo vee, “Boyhood,” geeze, amazing…wonderful…much better than “news” about shootups and shootouts and DC-capital games and cancer and yikes!
Shrub blooms day
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Somehow I got the weather prediction wrong yesterday—the line of storms is due tonight. Here are more tree-blooms that will be damaged.
Today was the third day in a row reaching the 70s (whew!), and I admit that after I got going on my walk, I began looking for a bit of shade—first day of the year I can admit/report that!
I believe this is a Lady Banks rose; it’s a vine, as you perhaps can tell. The blooms are small for roses, perhaps an inch across. Delicate.
Found several azaleas beginning to bloom today. This white specimen shows small buds, large buds, and open flowers. Lovely!
Dunno Tuesday
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Dunno which bulbs these are…as in, I forget….
Dunno what kind of car this is…as in, I never knew. British and right-hand drive, though!
Parse this
Monday, 11 March 2019
This pairing kinda confounded me. I’ve upped my walking minutes, so I can go farther afield…and in new territory (new lately, that is), I found this. I’m still pondering it….
True news
Sunday, 10 March 2019
That is a fake rock. And that is not fake news. It’s the truth.
Wind and rain the last few days have brought down so much organic detritus…including these glorious, red petals. Sorry, camellia.
Meanwhile (I would have written that before Colbert), I am discombobulated as per usual from the time change. The light outside and the clocks do not match, my spidey-sense declares vehemently.
Friday! Yay!
Friday, 8 March 2019
Back in the mists of time, I read that Swiss farmers who had fields/pastures on steep slopes…
…monitored the effects of gravity, and when too much soil had crept downhill, they dug it up and moved it back uphill, so as not to lose it to the owner of the next field/pasture downhill. Farming is tough. [Moss has a relatively limited root system, so it’s almost a cheat to show the creeping soil under moss….]
In my private world of kitchen experimentation, I’m making broth from the chicken leg bones from the other day’s bake…using the simmer burner for the first time. Burble. Pause. Burble.
And for Friday fun: a yard piglet. Winsome.
Updates
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Sidewalk is fixed. Opposite side is getting sidewalk break; never had one before. Wow!
First oven project: note triple decker of roasting pans! Potatoes! Chicken drumsticks! Mixed veg! (Just this one session and I’m a total convert to the convection process—everything crispier! Yum!)
Bare tree.
Blooming tree. (Different species.)
New and retro (continuing the 2018 tradition?)
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Clo means clock. The complicated process of setting the clock on the new appliance!* Yay! New range!
NewStove’s first dish: chili! Yay! Loving the 18,500 BTU wide-framed burner. Yay!
And for a more organic photo: yucca! Yay!
* The Guru does not set the microwave; I’m tickled he will set the range. I’m also hoping he can set whatever needs to be set after a power hit, as a quick perusal of the Owner’s Manual suggests it’s more than the clock. Or maybe I read it wrong. Stranger things have happened. BTW, I’m calling the range retro because: no bluetooth. Heh.